4 Florida high school heroes lift truck off woman

Four Florida high school football players are being hailed as heroes after they saved a woman pinned under a truck by lifting the vehicle.

Mark Gentry’s wife Susan is still in the hospital recovering after a remarkable rescue.

“She’s doing much better,” said Gentry, who credits the four teens to saving his wife’s life.

A bystander took a photo of the pickup truck moments after witnesses said a man drove over Susan in the Edgewater Drive crosswalk Thursday. Witnesses said she pushed her young daughter out of the way.

"The tire was on her chest and it was suffocating her," explained Gentry.

Gentry and others ran to help, but couldn’t quite lift the several thousand pound truck until four Bishop Moore Football players, who also happen to be on the weightlifting team. They saw what happened and rushed to help.

They managed to lift the truck long enough to pull Susan to safety.

“Right place at the right time,” Mario Hernandez said. “There’s a reason everything happens. Feels like a good moment, you know what I mean?”

Gentry certainly does.

“I don’t want to say what would have happened,” said Gentry. “We all know it would have been a totally different story.”

Gentry said his wife had surgery Friday and is out of the trauma unit. She suffered a fractured pelvis and several bruised ribs, but no internal injuries. He said she doesn’t remember the accident, but wants to thank the young men the family calls heroes.